From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerry Van Baren Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:04:58 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] Kconfig support In-Reply-To: <20090420145339.GR5367@pengutronix.de> References: <20090418162530.GD1413@game.jcrosoft.org> <200904200949.40732.vapier@gentoo.org> <20090420140414.GQ5367@pengutronix.de> <200904201042.10253.vapier@gentoo.org> <20090420145339.GR5367@pengutronix.de> Message-ID: <49EC8F1A.5040309@ge.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Robert Schwebel wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:42:08AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> U-Boot-v2 is used here to do real work in our projects. If it isn't >>> what you need, it is perfectly fine if you ignore it. >> my concern isnt really narrow to the Blackfin port. i was using it as >> a practical example. we've talked about v2 in the past as the answer >> to many of our problems and so we dont bother doing it in v1. but that >> approach looks to be wrong as v2 is of little practical importance. >> instead we should be doing what Jean-Christophe is doing: poaching >> good ideas until we get to the point where v2 can simply die. > > If you mean "you" while saying "we", then yes, it may be correct that > this is your plan. "We" don't have any plans to let v2 die. > > Should we be mindful of the future? But not at the expense of the > moment. Be mindful of the living Force, my young Padawan. > > rsc To quote Yogi Berra, "When you come to a fork in the road... take it."[1] Maybe V1 lives on. Maybe V1 runs out of gas, gets overwhelmed by legacy, and V2 becomes the continuing u-boot (think linux's ppc -> powerpc). Maybe the two will meet up again at the far side of the circle. Regardless, you have a choice. You can and should pick the branch that best solves your problem. Viva la OSS! Best regards, gvb [1] Legend has it, Yogi was giving directions to his house which was on a circular road, so it really *didn't* matter which fork you took.